Love decreases when it ceases to increase.

Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace; the most brilliant lightning come of the darkest clouds.

Every institution goes through three stages - utility, privilege, and abuse.

The heart feels, the head compares.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.

Achilles exists only through Homer . Take away the art of writing from this world , and you will probably take away its glory .

I do not want anything on this earth except the warmth of your pure love.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

From the period when I wrote La Nausea I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

You can't steal my joy because you didn't give it to me! Blessed.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.